The Wild

June 20, 2021

SNAKE EYES … Sunset Strip Star Guitarist Billy D’Vette of Pair-a-Dice lets it all hang out on Hollywood days

LOS ANGELES — There are no sure things in rolling the dice nor playing in a rock and roll band, and Billy D’Vette has the scars to prove it. The blond guitarist with chiseled features and a knack for catchy glam songs led Pair-a-Dice to the very brink of stardom in the late 1980s. But despite headline shows, record-company interest and the scene’s hottest groupies, Pair-a-Dice crapped out. They never signed a deal, they lost[…]

April 24, 2016

WELCOME TO THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE … The 14th annual reunion is set for Viper Room

WELCOME TO THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE REUNION — WE GOT FUN AND GAMES The 14th annual reunion also features Swingin Thing, Image Nation and Brent Muscat’s Alley Cats on May 28 at Viper Room in L.A. LOS ANGELES — Fourteen years ago, Hollywood underground rock favs Blackboard Jungle staged a reunion that was so successful, the band decided to do it again. And again. Blackboard Jungle never stopped, actually. The foursome gets together for one night at[…]

November 23, 2014

JUST LIKE PARADISE: Paradise return to the Sunset Strip along with The Wild; Red Dragon Cartel get some redemption

JUST LIKE PARADISE Paradise return to the Sunset Strip along with the Wild and Red Dragon Cartel get their redemption By Gerry Gittelson Metal Sludge Editor at Large HOLLYWOOD — More than 20 years since last playing the Sunset Strip, Paradise and The Wild made their grand return on Saturday, Nov. 22 at the Viper Room, and results proved spell-binding, as a capacity crowd roared its approval. Paradise particularly was really on, or[…]

November 19, 2014

JOHNNY X of THE WILD talks his friendship with GUNS N’ ROSES and going to prison

IT’S JOHNNY X – BUT NOT AS IN EX-CON A generation ago, the singer from The Wild went to prison just as the former Sunset Strip headliners were set to break into the mainstream, and now Johnny X is making a long-overdue comeback By Gerry Gittelson Metal Sludge Editor at Large HOLLYWOOD — One thing about Johnny X, the singer for The Wild: Though the former buzz band once on the brink of stardom[…]